swannyadj.
/ˈswɒni/ 1. Full of or abounding in swans.
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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 86 The Swannie Temp [L. Cycneia Tempe] and Hyries Poole he viewed from aboue.
1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 87 Next Camarine with Swanny Tempe [L. Heloria Tempe] fair.
1860 J. F. Campbell tr. in Pop. Tales W. Highlands I. xvii. c. 291 From the loved swanny glen.
2. Of or pertaining to, or resembling that of, a swan.
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1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. T 3v But O my pen transforme thy swanny face, And in eternall streames my inck shall weepe.
1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido i. i. sig. B1v More purely white then swanny downe.
1604 R. Pricket Honors Fame (1881) 29 A Swanny whitenes.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. v. 22 The swanny glossiness of a neck late so stately.
1829 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry II. 114 Girt in the swanny arms of fair Glycera.
1871 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 207 Clouds..in burly-shouldered ridges swanny and lustrous.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
swannyv.
U.S. slang.
= swan v.2
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1839 Salem Advertiser 18 Sept. 3/2 ‘Capt. Center, didn't I tell you Van Buren was not the man?’ ‘Yes you did, I swanney.’
1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 132 I swanny, it eenamost made me boo-hoo right out.
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